RILEM Award and Robert L'Hermite Medal, International Union of Testing and Research Laboratories for Materials and Structures (awarded for distinguished research on the fracture-mechanical behaviour of engineering structures for a scientist under the age of 40), 1981

Fulbright Senior Scholar, 1988

Australian Academy of Science/Japan Society for Promotion of Science Exchange Fellowship, 1989, 1996

Employment history

Management & Technology Trainer, Hong Kong Productivity Centre, 1973

Postdoctoral Research Assistant, University of Michigan, 1974-75; Imperial College, 1976

Recent publications

Professor Mai holds 2 US patents, has published 5 books, 34 book chapters and 759 SCI journal papers (with 16557 non-self cites). He is a highly cited researcher in Materials Science with an h-index of 60 @18/02/2015. Representative publications are given below: